Palestine Land Society هيئة أرض فلسطين

21/09/2026

29/08/2026

Al Ma'in for ever.

07/08/2026

I have faith that our young and future generations will Return because they know their heritage and identity.
And I have faith in the Right of Return because it is sacred, legal, and feasible.

05/07/2026

26/06/2026

What does Normalization actually mean?

25/05/2026

HOW I NEVER LEFT
This is Ceniza. Here is a link to the episode 24 of Turbulence Platform:
https://open.substack.com/pub/turbulencepod/p/episode-24-a-geography-of-palestine?r=17ed99&utm_medium=ios
We received such wonderful feedback from listeners who were as moved by it.
One audience member did have a question about an article you referenced that your friend wrote called something like “I have never left.” If you’re able to send a link or author that would be great.
We appreciate you and hope to stay in touch!
Dear Ceniza of Turbulence platform
Thank you for the link. I value your episode greatly. It is genuine and sincere.
“I have never left” appears in p 276, Chapter: “Charting the Land” in my memoir Mapping my Return.
In 1995 I visited my home Palestine for the first time after 47 years of Al Nakba, armed by my Canadian passport and Israel relaxing rules after Oslo agreement. My daughter Rania was with me visiting Palestine for the first time.
I told the driver (Palestinian from Jerusalem) to go left, right, look at left, right etc. He was amazed. He was used to visiting Palestinians asking him about places. He was then the guide.
He asked me: Do you live here? Hence the answer: I have never left.
I meant that over the years I was pouring over maps, making new maps and atlases, listing 30,000 place names.
I founded Palestine Land Society in London in year 2000 for this purpose.
The rest is history.
Salman

With Salman Abu Sitta

24/05/2026

The ‘Atlas of Palestine: Land Theft by the Jewish National Fund’ raises the central issues of agency (who stole that land and how did the JNF come to “own” it?) and rightful possession (which villages do those lands belong to, who lived there, and where are the scattered owners now?)
This Atlas will be of special relevance to Palestinian refugees displaced from the 372 villages whose land was allocated to the JNF/KKL in a fictitious land “sale” and subsequently covered in parks and forests, hiding demolished villages and preventing any return. For Palestinians, the names of their villages are resurrected and recorded on the map.

Annie O’Gara, April 14, 2026
Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/mapping-the-
crime-abu-sittas-atlas-exposes-geography-of-dispossession//

18/05/2026

The Haganah attacked Beersheba on 21 October 1948. A week later, David Ben-Gurion came to inspect the town. He admired the fine stone government buildings, the Arab houses and the boys’ school, where I had been a student. He liked them so much so he decided to live there. After his death in 1973 he was buried at Sde Boker, a little to the south of the town, near the Arab village of Rakhama (renamed Yeruham in Hebrew). In the 78 years since 1948, I have never ceased to think, plan and strive for my right of return home.’
Salman Abu Sitta on right of return, from the blog.
Read here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/right-of-return
Image: The Beersheba boarding school for boys in 1935, twelve years before Salman Abu Sitta was a student there.

18/05/2026

Ben Gurion and I: A personal feud

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